Replication data and code for “Franchise Expansion and Legislative Representation in the Early United States”
Stephen Ansolabehere, Jaclyn Kaslovsky, and Michael P. Olson
February 2022

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# Description ###
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This replication package contains all data and code necessary to replicate the tables and figures presented in
"Franchise Expansion and Legislative Representation in the Early United States" by Ansolabehere, Kaslovsky, and
Olson. All results in both the published text and online appendix are included. If replicators are looking for
the data and code used to clean and produce the analysis data, they should contact the authors directly. 

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# Software ######
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Analyses were run using R version 4.1.2 on a Dell PC running Windows 10 Pro.

The following R packages were used:
	lfe version 2.8-7.1
	dplyr version 1.0.7
	stargazer version 5.2.2
	ggplot2 version 3.3.5
	starpolishr version 0.0.0.9007 (installed from github)
	usmap version 0.5.2

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# List of files #
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### scripts ###

analysis_nokkenpoole.R				  
         Uses our main ideal points estimate dataset (rc_data_foranalysis.csv) and outputs our main tables

analysis_rh.R					  
         Uses our main rivers and harbors dataset (rh_data_foranalysis.csv) and outputs our main tables

analysis_gordon_simpson_data.R                       
         Analysis conducted using data from Gordon and Simpson (2018), produces appendix tables B.2 and B.7.

### data ###

gs_data_foranalysis.csv
	 made from replication data from Gordon and Simpson (2018), used for analyses using their data

rc_data_foranalysis.csv
	 final analysis data for roll call analyses

rh_data_foranalysis.csv
	 final analysis data for R&H analyses

